Asian North American Identities: Beyond the Hyphen edited by Eleanor Ty and Donald D. Goellnicht [in AsianWeek]
28 May, by in Adult Readers, Nonfiction, Pan-Asian Pacific American, Repost
More than three decades after ‘Orientals' claimed their identities as Asian Americans in the late 1960s, the said moniker no longer encompasses this growing group of Americans whose one commonality...
Silent No More: The Varsity Victory Volunteers of World War II
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